"Turbo Encabulator" the Original

This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70's at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and writer is Bud Haggert. He was the top voice-over talent on technical films. He wrote the script because he rarely understood the technical copy he was asked to read and felt he shouldn't be alone. We had just finished a production for GMC Trucks and Bud asked since this was the perfect setting could we film his Turbo Encabulator script. He was using an audio prompter referred to as "the ear". He was actually the pioneer of the ear. He was to deliver a live speech without a prompter. After struggling in his hotel room trying to commit to memory he went to plan B. He recorded it to a large Wollensak reel to reel recorder and placed it in the bottom of the podium. With a wired earplug he used it for the speech and the "ear" was invented. Today every on-camera spokesperson uses a variation of Bud's innovation. Dave Rondot (me) was the director and John Choate was the DP on this production. The first laugh at the end is mine. My hat's off to Bud a true talent.

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  Comedy

[hunter35474]

Wow...this is so old. Nobody uses lunar wane shafts anymore...gyroscopically reciprocating low-influx shafts are so much more efficient, especially when paired with hydrogravitational parabolic carpel struts (preferably the 21-gigowatt type) in order to prevent loss of inverse static torsion through excessive tachyon vibrations.

[SegmentedTurner]

I think the main reason this never was produced was due to the severe production limitations caused by the rarity of the base ore required to make enough Unobtainium necessary for any meaningful production quantities. Also, once it was discovered that chronic exposure to the ore causes rectal inversion, often leading to cranial-rectal coupling with the obvious next step to a career in politics, the FDA banned it from industry.

[Rasverix Xyleighraq]

our Teacher showed us this in Chemistry to tell us not to Babble on meaninglessly like this guy

[6labrats]

WoW! After all these years I finally understand what a woman feels like when a wrench explains how to change a tire!

[surredneck66]

this is how i feel explaining to my mom what im doing to my truck

[aerhearts]

Love it!  This is a classic.

[Ben Thompson]

barescent skor motion can be used against the inverted turboquadropoter wich may restart your qwenzerector

[CmBHDz]

..rectal inversions..

[trombondo]

Side fumbling is such a bitch - thank god for that dingle arm!

[Pete Brown]

Looks like a spaceship with balls.

[Greg Moore]

hey check out hanks version: wwmdf5m9khg

he's the man

[Paul Fogliani]

hmmmmmmmm its sound like a mechanic/electrical engineer wet dream ...